Creating Garment Patterns

There are different methods to creating patterns for garments. Patterns being the different pieces to a garment, such as front body, back body, collar, sleeve, cuff, etc. and in more complicated garments can be quite numerous, though if you know what you're going it won't be quite so confusing during assembly. The methods include:

Drape

Pattern Making

Computer assisted programs, such as GERBER

Knock-off methods

Above: Draping on a Dress form (remember that garments are worn by real people, so fittings should be according to wearer and not dress form)Below:Transferring draped patterns to paper(notice the clipping, to allow the fabric to ease and relax, marker paper is best for transferring but if it's too costly draw a straight line to match the grainline of piecec and pin on top of cork board)

Above: Using basic body blocks and manipulating for desired design effect (the center block is a basic bodice block, much different from a torso block that extends to the hipline, as you can see there are different ways to place the single waist dart and even more if one divides the dart into two or more, or sews it at gathers, pleats or dart tucks)Below: CAD = Computer Aided Design (there are numerous other programs available such as Gerber, as seen below, Lectra, Cutplan, Grafis, etc., so it's a good choice to take programs like computer programming so one can understand how computers work and thus be adaptable to any program that a company may use, which will often differ.)